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11 week puppy - can you recommend me a good food to move to?

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tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 10/02/2025 15:22

Hi all

Pooch is 11 weeks this week and came to us 3 weeks ago with a bag of Burns Puppy complete which we rehydrate with water. He wolfs this down however his poos are often quite runny and sometimes a bit mucus-y.

Saw vet last week who suggested Pro Kolin to help settle his tum and firm up poos. This seems to have helped and I've also started to add a little bit of cooked and mashed carrot which he enjoys.

Vet did say the water added to his food could be adding to the watery poos and said we could move him to dry.
Having looked on All About Dogs as suggested here to other posters I can also see that the food he's on isn't actually high on protein which it seems it needs to be more? Also not the highest ranking nutritionally.

The dog food market is huge though, isn't it?!! I'm a jut clueless to be honest but really want to try another food to see if we have more success with it. At the moment it seems his first thing before food poo is a good consistency (I'm able to pick up with poo bag) then after eating they just get more liquidy.

Of he's up to date worming wise too and no signs of anything dodgy in his poos (man - this is what my life has come to ... Shit Watch Confused).

Any recommendations for what's worked well for your pups to move to?

TIA Grin

OP posts:
Lougle · 16/02/2025 22:34

We use DARF https://sabrepetfood.co.uk/products/complete-dry-dog-food-for-puppies-14kg?variant=43513119965375

It's a cold-pressed food. It rates 86% on All About Dog Food, and it seems to be suiting our 16 week old lab puppy. Our 18 month old lab has moved over to the Salmon DARF and likes it, too.

Being cold pressed, it's more gentle than kibble. It will dissolve in warm water, or if you mix it briefly, it creates a gravy-like liquid alongside the kibble.

You don't need all that much of it because it has a lot of calories per 100g.

ThePoshUns · 16/02/2025 22:44

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 10/02/2025 15:53

He's a border terrier.

Stupid question but does it matter, provided it seems to suit his tummy whether it's wet or dry? And again stupid question but what's the benefit of doing a mix of both?

For border terriers avoid food with gluten in it, it can cause seizures in BTs. Mine has them so she is gluten free. Apart from that she can eat any mix of dry and wet foods.

Dora26 · 16/02/2025 22:45

I use Hills sensitive on the recommendation of my niece who is a vet and uses it for her dogs. My springer had sporadic runnny poos and now they are compact firm and def no farts!

nannyrosy · 16/02/2025 22:58

I'd suggest 5 days of panacur as although you say he's up to date with worming panacur covers all kinds of gut parasites and the mucas you mentioned flagged that for me I would then give some cooked plain chicken breast cut very small for a week and slowly introduce either royal canin puppy or purina pro plan puppy and you will be fine also some protexin capsules for three days are a miracle for tummy problems

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